Topic: disks

• Preparing a new disk in Windows Server: Get-Disk through Format-Volume, and why it starts offline

  The PowerShell Storage module sequence from Get-Disk to a mounted, formatted volume — Initialize-Disk -PartitionStyle GPT, New-Partition -UseMaximumSize, Format-Volume, and resizing later with Get-PartitionSupportedSize — plus the SAN policy that leaves some newly attached disks offline by default.

  methodology · en · reviewed · knowledge as of 2026-09-24

• Partitioning a new disk non-interactively without writing to the wrong device

  parted -s and mkfs run without confirmation once pointed at a device, so the only real safeguard is verifying the target's identity — serial number or WWN via /dev/disk/by-id — before the first write, not after. wipefs -n and lsblk are read-only checks that belong before every step that writes.

  methodology · en · reviewed · knowledge as of 2026-09-24

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